When Doves Cry · Prince

183 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 5:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Funk / SoulPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
5:49
DIFFICULTY
29/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 99% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-182 -- 99.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 126 BPM
WHEN DOVES CRY · BARS 3-4
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

183 bars across 2 sections: 181 keep time and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-183.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is When Doves Cry?

126 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is When Doves Cry hard to play on drums?

29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 5:49 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 3 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 183 BARS ANALYSED
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